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Release notes, roadmap updates, and engineering notes from the Camel team and community.
Echonect: Fifteen Years on Apache Camel
A five-part, fifteen-year story of building and running Echonect, one of Europe's larger SMS gateways, on Apache Camel. From a twelve-month rebuild deadline in 2011 to 500+ messages per second per node today, and the boring, durable engineering that kept it running.
Apache Camel Is Not Afraid of AI
The Apache Camel project pointed a frontier AI model at 19 years of code and asked it to find bugs. It found 165 for the upcoming 4.22 LTS release — concurrency races, silent data loss, security gaps, and edge cases that are hard for humans to spot. We fixed all of them. This is what happens when a project is not afraid of AI.
Installing the Apache Camel CLI Launcher
Install the Camel CLI Launcher with a single, checksum-verified command on macOS, Linux, and Windows, no JDK setup or separate jbang install required.